Death Penalty Appeal Rejected

The Florida Supreme Court has rejected the death penalty appeal of a man convicted of disemboweling and partly dismembering a woman in the bathtub of his Miami Beachapartment.

Michael D. Seibert was sentenced to death in the 1998 murder ofKarolay Adrianza. The court on Thursday unanimously denied all hisclaims for relief.

Seibert also was involved in the 1986 knife-point abduction of afemale British tourist across the street from her Miami Beachhotel. That victim was found the next day naked with head injuriesin a wooded area in Broward County.

State records show that the 43-year-old Seibert is being held inthe Union Correctional Institution.

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